CALL FOR PAPERS
LPAR'08
15th International Conference on Logic for
Programming, Artificial Intelligence and Reasoning
November 23-27, 2008
Carnegie Mellon University
Doha, Qatar
http://www.qatar.cmu.edu/lpar08
The series of International Conferences on Logic for Programming, Artificial
Intelligence and Reasoning (LPAR) is a forum where, year after year, some of
the most renowned researchers in the areas of automated reasoning,
computational logic, programming languages and their applications come to
present cutting-edge results, to discuss advances in these fields, and to
exchange ideas in a scientifically emerging part of the world. The 2008
edition will be held in Doha, Qatar, on the premises of the Qatar campus of
Carnegie Mellon University.
Logic is a fundamental organizing principle in nearly all areas in Computer
Science. It runs a multifaceted gamut from the foundational to the applied. At
one extreme, it underlies computability and complexity theory and the formal
semantics of programming languages. At the other, it drives billions of gates
every day in the digital circuits of processors of all kinds. Logic is in
itself a powerful programming paradigm but it is also the quintessential
specification language for anything ranging from real-time critical systems to
networked infrastructures. It is logical techniques that link implementation
and specification through formal methods such as automated theorem proving and
model checking. Logic is also the stuff of knowledge representation and
artificial intelligence. Because of its ubiquity, logic has acquired a central
role in Computer Science education.
New results in the fields of computational logic and applications are
welcome. Also welcome are more exploratory presentations, which may examine
open questions and raise fundamental concerns about existing theories and
practices. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
* Automated reasoning * Description logics
* Interactive theorem proving * Non-monotonic reasoning
* Implementations of logic * Specification using logics
* Proof assistants * Logic in artificial intelligence
* Program and system verification * Lambda calculus
* Model checking * Constructive logic and type theory
* Rewriting and unification * Computional interpretations of logic
* Logic programming * Logical foundations of programming
* Constraint programming * Logical aspects of concurrency
* Logic and databases * Logic and computational complexity
* Modal and temporal logics * Knowledge representation and reasoning
* Proof-carrying code * Reasoning about actions
* Translation validation * Proof planning
* Logic for the semantic web * Effectively presented structures
* Foundations of security * Logic of distributed systems
Invited Speakers
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It has been a tradition of LPAR to invite some of the most influential
researchers in the focus areas to discuss their work and their vision for
their fields. We are honored that the following members of the community have
accepted this invitation.
* Edmund Clarke, Carnegie Mellon University (USA)
* Amir Pnueli, New York University (USA)
* Michael Backes, Saarland University and MPI-SWS (Germany)
* Thomas Eiter, Technical University of Vienna (Austria)
Submission Instructions
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Submissions must not substantially overlap papers that have been published or
that are simultaneously submitted to a journal or a conference with
proceedings. Papers should be submitted in Postscript or Portable Document
Format (PDF); papers submitted in a proprietary word processor format such as
Microsoft Word cannot be considered. Submissions can be of two types:
* Regular papers are meant to describe solid new research results. They
can be up to 15 pages long in LNCS style, including figures, bibliography
and appendices.
* Experimental and tool papers are intended to describe implementations of
systems, to report experiments with implemented systems, or to compare
implemented systems. They can be at most 8 pages long in the LNCS style.
Both types of papers can be electronically submitted by visiting
http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=lpar2008. Prospective authors are
required to register a title and an abstract a week before the paper
submission deadline (see below).
As with the previous editions, the proceedings of LPAR'08 will be published in
Springer-Verlag's Lecture Notes in Computer Science series. They will be
available at the conference.
In keeping with the tradition of LPAR, researchers and practioners are
encouraged to report on interesting work in progress by submitting abstracts
of up to 5 LNCS pages, to be selected for a short-paper session. These
abstracts will not be printed in the proceedings of LPAR'08 and they have a
separate submission deadline (see below).
Participation
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Authors of accepted papers are required to ensure that at least one of them
will be present at the conference. Papers that do not adhere to this policy
will be removed from the proceedings.
Important Dates
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Abstract submission deadline: 26 May 2008
Paper submission deadline: 06 June 2008
Notification of acceptance: 29 August 2008
Camera-ready papers: 19 September 2008
Short paper submission deadline: 26 September 2008
LPAR'08 Workshops: 22 November 2008
LPAR 2008: 23-27 November 2008
Program Committee
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* Franz Baader, TU Dresden (Germany)
* Matthias Baaz, TU Vienna (Austria)
* Peter Baumgartner, National ICT (Australia)
* Josh Berdine, MSR Cambridge (UK)
* Armin Biere, Johannes Kepler University (Austria)
* Iliano Cervesato, Carnegie Mellon University (Qatar) - chair
* Sagar Chaki, Carnegie Mellon SEI (US)
* Hubert Comon-Lundh, ENS Cachan (France)
* Javier Esparza, TU Munich (Germany)
* Orna Grumberg, Technion (Israel)
* Thomas Henzinger, EPFL (Switzerland)
* Joxan Jaffar, NUS (Singapore)
* Juergen Giesl, RWTH Aachen (Germany)
* Claude Kirchner, INRIA & LORIA (France)
* Stephan Kreutzer, Oxford University (UK)
* Orna Kupferman, Hebrew University (Israel)
* Alexander Leitsch, TU Vienna (Austria)
* Nicola Leone, University of Calabria (Italy)
* Cathy Meadows, Naval Research Laboratory (US)
* Heiko Mantel, TU Darmstadt (Germany)
* John Mitchell, Stanford University (US)
* Aart Middeldorp, University of Innsbruck (Austria)
* Andreas Podelski, University of Freiburg (Germany)
* Sanjiva Prasad, IIT Delhi (India)
* Alexander Razborov, Russian Academy of Sciences (Russia)
* Andrey Rybalchenko, MPI-SWS (Germany)
* Ulrike Sattler, University of Manchester (UK)
* Carsten Schuermann, IT University of Copenhagen (Denmark)
* Helmut Seidl, TU Munich (Germany)
* Henny Sipma, Stanford University (US)
* Geoff Sutcliffe, University of Miami (US)
* Ashish Tiwari, SRI (US)
* Helmut Veith, TU Darmstadt (Germany) - chair
* Andrei Voronkov, University of Manchester (UK) - chair
Contact Information
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Email: lpar08@qatar.cmu.edu
Web page: http://www.qatar.cmu.edu/lpar08